Serious questions - didn't Limbaugh defend the tobacco industry?

[malaise]

Isn't he still attacking climate change?

Has he ever been right?

[Zorro]

1. He's promoted cigar smoking for decades

Karma’s a bitch.

[Mystery sage]

2. Yep

[dem4decades]

3. Megadittos,

[Submariner]

4. He snorted OxyContin for years

his lungs have been exposed to the non-drug fillers that bind the oxy pills together, so it should be no surprise he has killed himself. He lost most of his hearing from oxy snorting.

[Mike 03]

5. Twitter yesterday (not the best source)

maintains he downplayed the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer (just like Dennis Prager used to do).

[Orrex]

6. How much different would things be if that fucker had gotten cancer 30 years ago

I was disappointed when his Oxy-induced and hearing damage didn't end his bullshit career, and I was disappointed that his "business trip" to Dominican Republic didn't end his bullshit career, so I'm thrilled to hear that the reaper is sharpening his scythe for this overpaid asshole demagogue.

[malaise]

11. He did 30 years of harm spewing racist BS and fighting against

the social good.
That's the truth

[dalton99a]

15. His deafness wasn't that serious

He milked the hell out of it

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. "has he ever been right?". um, NO.

[safeinOhio]

8. I remember when he first started his show.

All he was talking about was women farting in cars. It got out of hand very fast.

[3Hotdogs]

9. The word was "farDing."

[milestogo]

12. He's a rabid misogynist.

Lung cancer is just what he deserves.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. "...sitting behind the golden EIB microphone amidst billowing clouds

of aromatic second hand smoke..."

You certainly got what you paid for, Big Boy.

Heh.

[skip fox]

13. This man has done more thna any other single person to destroy America.

“That is a myth. That has been disproven at the World Health Organization and the report was suppressed,” Limbaugh claimed. “There is no fatality whatsoever. There’s no even major sickness component associated with secondhand smoke. It may irritate you, and you may not like it, but it will not make you sick, and it will not kill you.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-advanced-lung-cancer

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“Earlier you were saying about smoking, that people ought to be thankful that there are smokers, because the money gotten from smoking helps to fund all these child programs and everything?” a caller told Limbaugh. “But that’s like saying I’m glad that there’s bumper accidents because then auto mechanics would still have jobs and it improves the economy.”

“Smokers aren’t killing anybody,” the conservative host added.

“Except themselves,” the caller noted.

“Yeah, but how long does it take?” Limbaugh scoffed. “There’s no even major sickness component associated with secondhand smoke. It may irritate you, and you may not like it, but it will not make you sick, and it will not kill you.”

“Firsthand smoke takes 50 years to kill people, if it does,” he continued. “Not everybody that smokes gets cancer. Now, it’s true that everybody who smokes dies, but so does everyone who eats carrots.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/i-would-like-a-medal-for-smoking-old-radio-shows-haunt-rush-limbaugh-after-he-reveals-advanced-lung-cancer/

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“I would like a medal for smoking cigars,” Limbaugh quipped on the show — which is titled “We Really Should Thank Smokers” on his Web site.

He also ridiculed the mounds of research tying secondhand smoke to cancer and death, calling the assertion “a myth."

https://pagesix.com/2020/02/03/rush-limbaugh-has-advanced-lung-cancer/

[dalton99a]

14. +1. On a daily basis, for decades